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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Susan Borison <imfd020199@gmail.com>
Reply-To: susandanielsdl@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 15:37:09 +0100
Subject: My Good Friend,

--

My Good Friend,

HOW ARE YOU? I am very happy to inform you about my success in getting
those funds transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from
Paraguay. Presently. I am in Saudi Arabia for an investment projects with my
own share of the fund. Meanwhile, I did not forget your past efforts
and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds despite that we
failed along the line. But still, I will never forget you and your
kind gesture for having supported me then to finalize the transaction
even though we could not make it.

I left an activated ATM VISA CARD of $2,750,000.00 (two Million seven
hundred fifty thousand dollars United States Dollars) with Mr.Godfrey Young
Delivery Department as a compensation to you and would like you to contact
him immediately to
enable him send the ATM VISA CARD to you. Here is him contacts;

NAME = Mr.Godfrey Young.

EMAIL = atmpayconsultant@gmail.com


Kindly contact him immediately and ask him to send you the ATM VISA
CARD of $2,750,000.00 I kept under his care. I am compensating you for
the past efforts and attempts you made to assist me in this matter.

I sincerely appreciate all your efforts as at that time and asking you
to feel free and get in touch with Mr.Godfrey Young. and
inform him where to send the ATM VISA CARD to you. For your
information, I made an oversight and forgot to leave some money with
him to send the ATM VISA CARD to you. Please you will assist him
financially to send the ATM VISA CARD to you.

Please, do let me know immediately you receive the ATM VISA CARD so
that we can share the joy after all the sufferings we went through at
that critical period. At the moment, I am very busy here because of
the investment projects I and my new partner are having at hand.

Finally, I have given instruction to Mr.Godfrey Young. on your behalf to
send the card to you as soon as you contact him, so feel free and get
in touch with her and assist her financially to pay the delivery fees
and send the ATM VISA CARD to you without any delay.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs Susan Borison

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